I don't know how applicable it will be to your situation but a few weeks ago at home my dad was looking for a NAS solution but I had a spare server sitting around doing nothing so I threw FreeNAS on it and a short time later it was all up and running how I wanted it.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.freenas.org/">http://www.freenas.org/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Lindsay Hunter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindsay@csw.co.nz">lindsay@csw.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">When I began my search, I was thinking about upgrading my local network<br>
to full gigabit ethernet. I have a mixture of devices, and files sizes<br>
are increasing so backup and stuff becomes an issue. 19 Gb of Intunes<br>
is an example. A mixture of USB2 devices, and 100 mbit switches etc.<br>
Time to coordinate.<br>
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NAS would need to operate at close to disk transfer speeds, 1 Gb<br>
ethernet, be industry standard files sytems, quiet and cool.<br>
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Can we do that? With ethernet, it can be setup up a long way from the<br>
user which means noise is not a problem.<br>
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Lindsay<br>
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> ----- "Lindsay Hunter" wrote:<br>
> > Has anyone here given thought to network attached storage with linux at<br>
> > an affordable level? The commercial offerings seem to be lacking.<br>
> ><br>
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> Many angles to look at here - there's a hunky server with a platform<br>
> of some sort dishing out storage to other boxen (<a href="http://www.openfiler.com" target="_blank">www.openfiler.com</a> is<br>
> one easy option), or there's a Windows file server replacement (again<br>
> Openfiler, or just any distro with Samba is cool) or there's something<br>
> more appliance based which is harder to define.<br>
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> What sort of size/shape are you looking for? And depending on the<br>
> audience, what is the need for commercial support?<br>
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